Kensington, Pizza Restaurant Guide

Near the Albert Hall, on a quirky site built in the Venetian Gothic style to please Queen Victoria, this “typically bustling family-run Italian” opened in 1967, and offers a “standard menu, with properly cooked pasta” and dependable pizza. “Kids are really well looked after, just like being in Italy” – as Princess Diana found, when she used to take Wills and Harry out for a treat from nearby Kensington Palace.

“A stunning space that’s great for a fun night out” – Big Mamma group’s “exotic” Kensington mega-trattoria is “definitely a place to impress” (especially if you are relatively young-at-heart). With four floors, 4,000 sq ft and 170 seats, it would be amazing if its pizza, pasta and other Italian fare was totally consistent, but the poor reports from last year have subsided and it received a much better rep this year.